James Comey never seemed so small as in his interview about his book

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It would seem that Comey, now free to express his disdain for Trump, would have a special power as Trump’s exact opposite, not just a nemesis but someone whose core traits are diametrically opposed to the President’s own. And yet much in ABC’s special conspired to make him seem less like the avenger prepared to take the President down than just another player in a game whose rules Trump himself has set forth. Comey, a giant of a man (he’s 6-foot-8) who dominated the frame on ABC as elsewhere, has seemed odd before, but he’d never before seemed quite so small.

To wit: Comey’s first briefing with Trump, in which Comey says the two men discussed a purported dossier about Trump’s time with prostitutes in Moscow, was “really weird.” Before that, his time immediately following sending a letter to Congress about re-opening the investigation into Hillary Clinton that may have clinched the election for Trump? “It sucked.” (He invites his critics to “come with me to October 28,” when the letter was sent, by reading his book.)

Throughout, Comey seemed blessed by the same terse certitude as the man he now derides, along with the same ease with promoting wares for sale in the midst of doing other business. Referring to the disdain with which both Trump and Clinton hold him today, Comey pushed them toward his memoir, A Higher Loyalty, on sale Tuesday: “I would hope both camps will read this, and, I hope, see a deeply flawed human surrounded by other flawed humans trying to make decisions with an eye, not on politics, but on those higher values.”
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... His interview was vastly more about pleading his own case than it was about making an affirmative one in any direction; two massively heralded claims in the interview, that Trump was “possibly” obstructing justice and that he is “morally unfit to be President,” are both heavily qualified, as Comey seems to have little real standing to make a judgment on either. (In the former example, Comey cites “some evidence” but notes he’s not a prosecutor in the case and so can’t really comment; in the latter, Trump’s purported unfitness is owed to issues including his treatment of white nationalist riots in Charlottesville, Va., and his treatment of women as “meat,” which are of concern to many but entirely unrelated to Comey’s own work with the man.)
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Comey has always struck me as a man full of himself and he comes across that way in talking about his book.  His description of the President was meant to demean and insult in a gratuitous fashion.  It had little to do with the subject of his book.  But it did show what a small man he is.  In his book, he says he was concerned about Hillary Clinton's legitimacy being challenged if he did not reopen her case based on finding more mishandled classified documents on Huma Abedin's husband's computer.

But from his first meeting with Trump through subsequent meetings he seemed willing to challenge Trump's legitimacy despite using "an unverified and salacious" opposition research document masquerading as an intelligence report.  His every move was to challenge Trump's legitimacy and he is still trying to and he seems stunned that Trump would think there is something wrong with that.

His handling of Hillary Clinton's felonies was a disgrace to the office he held.  You can just see him indicting Trump for doing something like that.  It's his visceral hatred of the guy that has caused him to go so wrong in giving Clinton a pass while looking for an excuse for a coup attempt against Trump.